Ministers of a New Covenant 1 TNT We begyn to prayse oure selves agayne. Nede we as some other of pistles of recommendacion vnto you? or letters of recommendacion from you? BSB BSB: Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?
2 TNT Ye are oure pistle written in oure hertes which is vnderstonde and reed of all men BSB BSB: You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone.
3 TNT in that ye are knowen how that ye are the pistle of Christ ministred by vs and written not with ynke: but with the sprete of the livynge God not in tables of stone but in flesshly tables of the herte. BSB BSB: It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 TNT Suche trust have we thorow Christ to god ward BSB BSB: Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
5 TNT not that we are sufficient of oure selves to thinke enythinge as it were of oure selves: but oure ablenes cometh of God BSB BSB: Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
6 TNT which hath made vs able to minister the newe testament not of the letter but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth but the sprete geveth lyfe. BSB BSB: And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
The Glory of the New Covenant (Exodus 34:10–35)
7 TNT Yf the ministracion of deeth thorow the letters figured in stones was glorious so that the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses for the glory of his countenauce (which glory neverthelesse is done awaye) BSB BSB: Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
8 TNT why shall not the ministracion of the sprete be moche more glorious? BSB BSB: will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?
9 TNT For if the ministringe of condempnacion be glorious: moche more do the the ministracion of rightewesnes excede in glory. BSB BSB: For if the ministry of condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry of righteousness!
10 TNT For no dout that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respecte of this excedynge glory. BSB BSB: Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
11 TNT Then if that which is destroyed was glorious moche more shall that which remayneth be glorious. BSB BSB: For if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which endures!
12 TNT Seynge then that we have soche trust we vse gret boldnes BSB BSB: Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
13 TNT and do not as Moses which put a vayle over his face that the children of Israel shuld not se for what purpose that served which is put awaye. BSB BSB: We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
14 TNT But their myndes were blinded. For untill this daye remayneth the same coveringe vntake awaye in the olde testament when they reade it which in Christ is put awaye. BSB BSB: But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
15 TNT But even vnto this daye when Moses is redde the vayle hangeth before their hertes. BSB BSB: And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
16 TNT Neverthelesse when they tourne to the Lorde the vayle shalbe taken awaye. BSB BSB: But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 TNT The Lorde no dout is a sprete. And where the sprete of the Lorde is there is libertie. BSB BSB: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
18 TNT But we all beholde the glorye of the Lorde with his face open and are chaunged vnto the same similitude from glory to glory even of the sprite of the Lorde. BSB BSB: And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
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